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dd Archive
How To Backup And Restore The MBR
You are a geek therefore you can't trust your self to not render a system unbootable. Specially if you are about to boot from more than one operating system which is done incorrectly could result in getting a blank screen. BTW: The MBR holds partition data and Operating System boot...
Read More Clone And Restore A Hard Drive Over The Network With DD, Gzip, And OpenSSH
In more than one occasion I’ve been asked to copy or backup an entire drive from one remote system to a second remote remote system, my preferred method for accomplishing this task is by making use of three different tools available in UNIX-like operating systems. Thanks to DD, Gzip, and...
Read More DD the Swiss army knife for Linux
The Windows world has Norton Ghost, Linux has dd which can take on multiple tasks from cloning a drive to creating an image for storage. Keep in mind this post takes a very narrow approach towards using dd, you can always do more research. This is a list of...
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